The St. John’s basketball team has begun its preparations for the Players Era Festival in Las Vegas this week and if you aren’t familiar this event is taking over the early season college basketball schedule.
A tournament where teams are guaranteed $1 million in NIL for just showing up, with incentives to be earned along the way, is diluting the fields of the historic multi-team events (MTEs) like the Maui Invitational and Battle 4 Atlantis.
However, the Players Era is the new hot thing, and it has already expanded from its first year to second year and is hoping to continue expand into the future.